Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on March 23, 1959. Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. ... Image File history File links FlemingGF.jpg‎ James Bond 007 - Goldfinger - First edition with artwork by Richard Chopping © 1959 Jonathan Cape This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the... Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... The spy fiction genre (sometimes called political thriller) first arose just before the First World War, at about the same time, the first organized intelligence agencies were being formed. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... “ISBN” redirects here. ... 2002 reissue of the original novel. ... This article is about the James Bond book and short story. ... Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1964 it was adapted as the third film in the EON Productions James Bond series and was the third to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond. See Goldfinger for discussion of the film. Goldfinger is the third film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the MI6 agent. ... EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Goldfinger is the third film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the MI6 agent. ...

Plot summary

The novel begins in a similar fashion to Moonraker with an acquaintance of Bond (Junius Du Pont from Casino Royale) meeting him in Miami and requesting that he observe a two-handed Canasta game between him and the eponymous villain of the novel, Auric Goldfinger. Du Pont suspects Goldfinger of cheating and offers to pay Bond to confirm his suspicions. It turns out that Goldfinger is indeed cheating and Bond forces him to admit his guilt and pay back Du Pont due compensation. Moonraker is the third James Bond novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. ... Casino Royale by Ian Fleming was the first James Bond novel. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... Card tray with a stock and a frozen discard pile. ... Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger. ...

After Bond returns to London he inquires into the background of Goldfinger to find that he's the world's top gold smuggler, the richest man in England, and after further investigation Bond also learns that Goldfinger is working as treasurer for the Soviet assassination agency SMERSH. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Soviet redirects here. ... SMERSH (in capitalised letters) is a Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Flemings early James Bond novels and films as agent 007s nemesis. ...

Bond is sent to contact Goldfinger to collect information, and they engage in a high-stakes game of golf, for money, in England. Again Goldfinger cheats by switching golf balls, but by switching the ball again, Bond forces Goldfinger to lose due to the cheating, without directly accusing him.

Bond is then sent on a mission to find Goldfinger's supply of gold that he has been smuggling, and bring it back to England. Bond manages to trace Goldfinger to a warehouse in Geneva where the white-gold armor of Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is regularly being melted into aircraft chair-frames, to be smuggled into India. Bond is then captured and tortured for information (being promised a slow death by buzz saw rather than a quick one, if he doesn't talk). This continues until Bond blacks out. AX201 at Cat and Fiddle Hill during the Scottish Reliability Trial 1907 Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost Sedanca De Ville 1921 Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost Tourer 1922 Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost 1924 The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost refers both to a car...

He then wakes up in New York and is taken to Goldfinger's warehouse, where he is told he and Tilly Masterton will be working for Goldfinger, essentially as secretaries and personnel managers. Bond had earlier offered his services, pretending to be a huckster, but had seemingly been refused and had expected to die.

Bond has observed Goldfinger making dead drops of gold bars in Europe, for SMERSH. Bond learns that Goldfinger intends to finance SMERSH's schemes by stealing fifteen billion USD worth of gold bullion from the American bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, an operation codenamed "Operation Grand Slam". Bond, along with Felix Leiter work to prevent the villain from executing his plan, which involves killing the soldiers of Fort Knox with water-borne nerve agent (GB, also called sarin) and then using a stolen U.S. tactical atomic bomb missile warhead to break into Fort Knox's impregnable vault. They do not succeed in stealing any of Fort Knox's gold, but they do manage to escape after failing the robbery when it becomes apparent the poisoning hasn't worked. A dead drop or dead letter box, is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... This article is about United States Army post. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Felix Leiter is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. ... Sarin, also known by its NATO designation of GB (O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate) is an extremely toxic substance whose sole application is as a nerve agent. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

In the novel, Pussy Galore is the lesbian leader of an all-female criminal organisation from New York City called the Cement Mixers. They had previously been circus acrobats and cat-burglars. Her group, as well as various other mobs including the Mafia and the Spangled Mob from Diamonds Are Forever, have been employed to aid Goldfinger in the planning and execution of "Operation Grand Slam". Pussy Galore is a fictional character from the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. ...

Martial arts expert Oddjob appears in the novel with a lethal metal-rimmed bowler hat, which he uses to kill Tilly at Fort Knox, and he is as seemingly invincible in the novel as in the movie. But he and Bond do not have the chance to fight, as in the novel it is a dozing Oddjob who is sucked to his death through the window of the airplane, after Bond penetrates it with a concealed knife. Goldfinger then dies as Bond strangles him, and their airplane, laden with Goldfinger's own personal hoard of gold, sinks quickly in the ocean after running out of fuel when Bond forces it off course to its intended goal in the Soviet Union. Only Bond and Pussy survive. Oddjob is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger. ... The bowler hat is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown created for Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1850. ...

In terms of gadgets, this Fleming novel is closest to the Bond films technological underpinnings. The secret agent is issued a battleship grey Aston Martin DB Mark III with some accessories (though not the set of the film), as well as a homing device similar to that seen in the movie; however, Q is not in the book. See also Aston Martin DB3 for the racing car often confused with the Mark III The DB Mark III was a sports car sold by Aston Martin from 1957 through 1959. ... Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. ...

plot differences from movie

• Bond is in Mexico to fire-bomb a drug warehouse (simply to keep it's contents from reaching England) where he suffers a retaliatory attack in a dark ally by a hired thug - who he kills with his fists, while in the movie, this comando-like mission takes place in an unidentified South American country, involves a sophisticated smuggling base inside a guarded oil storage facility (to stop a Dictator from financing revolutions with drug money), ending up with a romantic encounter in a cantina dancer's room where he is attacked by the thug - who is thrown into a bathtub and electrocuted by sunlamp.
• Bond exposes Goldfinger's card cheating while passing through Miami as a favor (though a paid one) to Mr. Du Pont, while in the movie, he does it in the course of observing Goldfinger on M's orders, as transmitted to Bond in Miami by Felix Leiter.
• Felix Leiter is now a Pinkertons Detective (having been mustered out of the C.I.A. due to a handicap caused by shark attack in "Live and Let Die"), while in the movie, he is still a C.I.A. agent.
• Bond hears of Jill Masterson's death by gold paint (skin asphixiation) second hand and later on from Tilly Masterson, while in the movie, he is present (though unconscious) at the scene of the murder and discovers the body, himself.
• Bond comes pre-equipped with his tricked out Aston Martin, while in the movie, he recieves the car (though it's model and secret features are different) from Q (who is completely absent from the book) in his Q-Branch lab.
• The golf game is played for cash money only, while in the movie, the stakes include a bar of gold (at least on Bond's part).
• A portion of the story that takes place in Golfinger's English house (where Bond ingeniously covers up his snooping and Oddjob demonstrates his blade-brimmed hat, together with his karate skill) is omitted from the movie (though the hat demonstration still takes place in the earlier golf course scene).
• A portion of Bonds car tailing of Goldfinger through France and his witnessing of a SMERSH money drop is omitted from the movie, which retains the car tailing through Switzerland and features Tilly Masterson taking an accidental rifle shot at Bond.
• Bond discourages Tilly Masterson from also following Goldfinger by braking hard and causing her car to rear-end his, while in the movie, Bond takes Tilly's car out of the chase by means of the secret weapons (hubcap tire cutters) his Aston Martin is equipped with.
• Bond and Tilly Masterson (who is killed by Oddjob's throwing blade hat in the much later climax chapter) are detected by sound sensor and captured in the woods outside Goldfinger's Swiss factory by a bow-and-arrow wielding Oddjob, while in the movie, this capture involves detection by trip-wire alarm, a car chase and the death of Tilly (still by means of Oddjob's hat).
• Bond is interrogated under threat of a table saw blade approaching between his legs, and passes out from the pain of being simultaneously beaten by Oddjob (only to survive because Goldfinger decides to employ him), while in the movie, the interrogation instrument is a cutting laser approaching between Bonds legs, and he passes out from a knock-out dart being shot into him (only to survive by convincing Goldfinger that the information he knows is too important to let him die).
• Bond and Tilly Masterson are kept sedated throughout their flight to the U.S. aboard a commercial airliner with Goldfinger posing as their Doctor, while in the movie, Bond wakes up as a "guest" aboard Goldfinger's private jet in flight to the U.S.
• Pussy Galore is an explicitly lesbian crime boss of an all-girl mob, introduced during a conference of gangsters, while in the movie she is Goldfinger's personal pilot (with implied lesbian tendencies) who leads an all-girl stunt flying team, introduced aboard Goldfinger's business jet in flight.
• The bulk of Bond's captivity is spent in a New York City Warehouse (where he is expected to do secretarial work with Tilly Masterson), while in the movie this section takes place on Goldfinger's stud ranch in Kentucky, involves no work for Bond, but does involve an escape attempt.
• During the hood's conferrence a gangster (along with his bodyguard) who refuses Goldfinger is killed by unidentified means (explained away as an accidental fall down the stairway), while in the movie, he (alone) is shot by Oddjob on the drive home from the hood's conferrence (and his body disposed of, along with the car, in a junkyard metal compactor).
• The bulk of the gangsters all survive to take part in the attack on Fort Knox (where some are killed), while in the movie, they are all killed in the conference room by Gamma 9 gas (thus making no distinction between those willing to go along with Goldfinger and the one who refuses him).
• Goldfinger buys a U.S. nuclear warhead for $1 million from Europe in the book; in the movie, he is gets it from a Chinese agent.
• The name of an actual nerve gas sarin is used in the novel, but is intended to be delivered in the water supply, not by air.
• Goldfinger intends to physically rob Fort Knox of all its gold, while in the movie he intends to destroy the U.S. gold supply with a nuclear bomb and thus increase the value of his own gold stock.

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Characters

1961 edition by Pan Books. Pussy Galore appearing as described in the novel

• James Bond - A British Secret Service agent, sent to investigate gold smuggling.

• Auric Goldfinger - The richest man in England, Goldfinger is also the treasurer for the Soviet counter-intelligence agency SMERSH. He intends to finance SMERSH's schemes by robbing Fort Knox.

• Pussy Galore - The head of a lesbian gang known as "The Cement Mixers" , enlisted by Goldfinger to aid in "Operation Grand Slam."

• M - The head of the British Secret Service who sends Bond to investigate the gold smuggling operation. He is frequently helped by his secretary Miss Moneypenny and his Chief of Staff Bill Tanner.

• Oddjob - An expert in unarmed combat, he is Auric Goldfinger's bodyguard and manservant. He wears a metal derby hat, which is also used as a weapon.

• Felix Leiter - An agent of the CIA, Leiter was maimed by a shark in the previous novel Live and Let Die. He is now working for Pinkerton's Detective Agency.

• Jill Masterton - Auric Goldfinger's secretary who helps him cheat in card games. When she betrays him by helping Bond, Goldfinger retaliates by painting her entire body with gold paint, suffocating her. (This is a fictitious method of murder. Humans can not be suffocated merely by covering the entire body with paint. [1])

• Tilly Masterton - Jill's sister, she tries to kill Goldfinger in revenge, but is prevented from doing so by Bond. In the novel, Tilly is completely unimpressed by Bond, but is strongly attracted to Pussy Galore.

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Subtexts and motifs

• In the novel Goldfinger wears yellow briefs to suntan in, has a collection of yellow-jacketed pornographic books and can only find satisfaction in copulating with gold-painted women (supposed to be prostitutes), he travels in a yellow-painted car, employs a blonde secretary, and even has a ginger-colored cat (which is eaten by Oddjob for dinner after Bond uses it in a ruse). He employs Korean servants who are repeatedly referred to as "yellow-faced." The film keeps the color of auto and secretary’s hair, but not the other insensitive material, and adds other gold motifs (see film discussion). A bit of Goldfinger's homage to gold ("I love its color, its brilliance, its divine heaviness.") is one of few dialogue lines from the novel to be kept relatively intact in the film.

• Illiberalisms and stereotypes of the novel's time (none of which survive to the film): Du Pont remarks casually that the hotel of which he is part owner (the fictional Floridiana) has a restriction against Jews. Koreans are negatively characterized as a group in the novel, as are homosexuals. Although Pussy Galore has many skills, Goldfinger includes her group of female criminals primarily because he needs a group of women to impersonate Red Cross nurses for the covert attack on poison-stricken Fort Knox.

• Amazon (cat)women in the 50's: Bond's encounter with Pussy Galore and the Abrocats is in the tradition of a 1950's science fiction sub-genre in which groups of isolated women (often on other planets) "have no use for men" until a real man in the form of an adventurer teaches them the error of their ways. For examples see Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Queen of Outer Space (1957), and Missile to the Moon (1958).

2002 Penguin Books paperback edition

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Background facts on the writing of the novel

• The villain's name was borrowed from Fleming's neighbor, architect Ernő Goldfinger, and his character bears some resemblance. Erno Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when the book was published, prompting Fleming to suggest renaming the character "Goldprick", but eventually settled out of court in return for his costs, six copies of the book, and an agreement that the characters' first name Auric would always be used.
• Goldfinger is typically a German-Jewish name, and the protagonists of the novel Goldfinger know this, but neither Bond nor Du Pont think Goldfinger is Jewish. Instead Bond pegs the red-haired blue-eyed man as a Balt, and indeed Goldfinger proves to be an expatriate Latvian from Riga.
• Ian Fleming himself liked the color of gold enough to own a gold-plated typewriter, on which he wrote some Bond novels. In the mid-1990s this machine was purchased by the 5th official Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan, in Jamaica.[2]

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Publication history

The following are the publications of Goldfinger.^[1]

Hardback

London: Jonathan Cape. First British edition. 1st printing: 23 March 1959.

England: Viking/Penguin. 4 April 2002. ISBN 0-670-91036-8

Paperback

London: Pan. Paperback. 1st, 2nd and 3rd printings: 1961.

London: Pan. Paperback. 4th printing: 1962; 5th printing: 1962; 6th printing: 1962; 7th printing: 1963.

London: Pan. Paperback. 7th printing: 1963; 8th printing: 1963; 9th printing: 1963.

London: Pan. Paperback. 9th and 10th printings: 1963; 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th printings: 1964; 18th, 19th and 20th printings: 1965.

London: Pan. Paperback. 21st printing: 1969.

London: Pan. Paperback. 22nd printing: 1972; 23rd printing: 1973; 24th printing: 1973; 25th printing: 1975; 26th printing: 1976. ISBN 0-330-10238-9

St Albans [Hertford]: Triad/Panther. Paperback. 1st printing: 1978. ISBN 0-586-04519-8

St Albans [Hertford]: Triad/Panther. Paperback. 2nd printing: 1979. ISBN 0-586-04519-8

London: Triad/Granada. Paperback. Reprinted: 1982. ISBN 0-586-04519-8

London: Triad/Panther/Granada. Paperback. Reprinted: 1984; Reprinted: 1986. ISBN 0-586-04519-8

Sevenoaks [Kent]: Coronet. Paperback. 1st printing: February 1989. ISBN 0-340-42568-7

Sevenoaks [Kent]: Coronet. Paperback. 6th printing: n.d. ISBN 0-340-42568-7

London: Penguin. Paperback. 4 April 2002. ISBN 0-14-100285-9

Bath [England]: New Portway/Chivers Press. Large print edition. Hardcover. 1st printing: 1983. ISBN 085119205X Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...

England: Eagle Large Print. Hardcover. 1st printing: 1992. ISBN 0792713206 Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

Bath [England]: Paragon/Chivers Press. Large print edition. Softcover. 1st printing: March 1993. Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...

London: Hutchinson. Children’s edition. Paperback. 1st printing: May 1976. Part of the ‘Bull’s-eye’ series. ISBN 0091269911

England: Nelson Thomes. Children’s edition. Paperback. 1st printing: June 1976. Part of the ‘Bull’s-eye’ series. ISBN 0-7487-1019-1

Adaptations

Main articles: Goldfinger (film) and James Bond comic strips

In 1964, Goldfinger became the third entry in the James Bond film series. Sean Connery returned as Bond, while German actor Gert Fröbe played Auric Goldfinger. Goldfinger is the third film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the MI6 agent. ... Starting in 1958 and continuing to 1983, James Bond, the fictional character created by author Ian Fleming appeared in 52 comic strips that were syndicated in British newspapers, 7 of which were initially published abroad. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Gert Fröbe playing Auric Goldfinger The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Gert Froebe. ...

Fleming's original novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the British Daily Express newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from October 3, 1960 to April 1, 1961. The adaptation was written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky. It was reprinted by Titan Books in 2004 in an edition known as the Goldfinger collection. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... For other uses, see Daily Express (disambiguation). ... is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John McLusky, born the son of creole lesbians, lived a life of prostitution and debauchery. ... Titan Books is a UK publisher of graphic novels. ...

References

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